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- SETI
- Search for ExtraTerrestrial Intelligence A huge grid computing project on the Internet that takes advantage of unused processing time in users' computers to analyze radio telescope data. The...
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- Stargates and time travel
- Stargates and time travelAnother angle.Let's say for a moment that the wormhole thing isn't workable and that the speed of light really is a drop dead barrier to travel. So advanced civilizations could communicate but not visit. Now, let's further assume that they do in fact use electro-magnetic...
- Tags: Advertising & Promotion, Games, Now Let, SETI, radio, civilization
- Discussion threads 2007-05-18
- PS3 power requested for research project
- PS3 power requested for research projectWow, that makes the cost of the units seem more reasonablylending their processing power out for only 600 plus clams, that's a steal. Sony wii love you.GreatAs soon as the hardware gets cheap enough I might buy oneor two just for distributed computing....
- Tags: Rootkits, Games, Government, Game players, SETI, Folding@Home, Sony Corp., BOINC, Sony PlayStation 3
- Discussion threads 2007-03-15
- Sun fuels cosmic research
- Sun fuels cosmic researchTechnological Value vs Stock ValueSUN who is admitedly not doing very well in the stock market is still one of the leaders in high-tech solutions. They have been putting together distributed systems that can provide better pettaflops / dollar than competitors. All the while the 'software giant'...
- Tags: Investment, Sun Microsystems Inc., seti
- Discussion threads 2003-12-17
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- 2^43,112,609 -1: Distributed computing finds largest prime yet
- GIMPS – the distributed computing Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search – has found and confirmed the largest prime number ever: 243,112,609-1. It has 13 million digits and gives the GIMPS project a $100,000 award from the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Science News reports. Because 243,112,609-1 has...
- Tags: Electronic Frontier Foundation, Prime, Distributed Computing, Mersenne, Cloud Computing, Network Technology, Networking, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-09-28
- UK educator who called for teaching creationism should be fired
- UK educator who called for teaching creationism should be firedConsidering that.......most people consider themselves to be religious, why is it necessary for science classes to take an atheistic approach to presenting the subject? By doing so, you are not only alienating a good portion of your students, but you...
- Tags: Reiss, creationism
- Discussion threads 2008-09-14
- A virus in our genes, think about that....
- A virus in our genes, think about that....Not bad...You were doing good until about halfway through the post, when you might as well have pulled out your Barack Hussein Obama flag and waved it from the rooftops.Your gallop off into politics ruined what would otherwise have been a good read.RE:...
- Tags: Cyberthreats, Obama, gene, virus, Creationists, Natural Selection, Sarah Palin
- Discussion threads 2008-09-03
- LinuxWorld video: Merrill Lynch moves to stateless computing
- LinuxWorld video: Merrill Lynch moves to stateless computingThis guy has been drinking too much clould computing Kool AidPutting your fate in someone else's hands is simply not a good idea. You may get away with doing so once or twice, but eventually you will get bitten very badly. As for...
- Tags: Corporate communications, NOW HERE, stateless computing, LinuxWorld, computing, Merrill Lynch & Co. Inc., video
- Discussion threads 2008-08-05
- Call for military to operate botnet
- Call for military to operate botnetI'd volunteer my PCs to help.If they did this above-board, with a SETI screen saver style app we could install deliberately, I'd bet they could have 50 million machines ready to help with this in a matter of weeks.RE: Call for military to operate botnetI'd...
- Tags: Internet service providers (ISPs), SECURITY, NETWORKING, Internet Service Provider, attack, Internet
- Discussion threads 2008-05-12
- What a novel idea: Verizon cooperates with P2P file sharers
- What a novel idea: Verizon cooperates with P2P file sharersP2P: A perfectly 'good' technologyAnd Verizon is taking the right path to innovate and maintain Net Neutrality.Bad ComCast! Bad!The problem isn't traffic, it's parking.A lot of people have tried to compare P2P with cars in a traffic analogy. I think...
- Tags: Peer to peer (P2P), P2P, Verizon Communications Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-03-14
- Grids need more medical applications
- In many ways grid computing remains a solution in search of a problem. After enormous hype early in this decade, spurred by success stories like the SETI@Home project, valuable commercial applications have proven few and far between. Much of the problem lies in set-ups....
- Tags: Grid, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2007-12-14
- Chip bugs can lead to major security disasters
- Chip bugs can lead to major security disastersChip bugsShamir suggests that it's impractical to test all cases of 64*64-bit multiplication. But given the lifespan of a chip design, and given that the test only needs to be run once, wouldn't it be practical to design a "grid" or "distributed" test,...
- Tags: Semiconductors, Network technology, Desktops, CERN, Shamir, Chip bug, chip, security disaster, security
- Discussion threads 2007-11-19
- Open source development is parallel processing in action
- About 20 years ago engineers around the world began demonstrating what is still the greatest computer innovation of my lifetime, parallel processing. (For more on the concept, visit this course at the Cornell Theory Center, offered by Saleh Elmohamed.) Until then people were limited to computers based...
- Tags: Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2007-10-24
- Best guess: Paul Allen's Telescope Array won't find any aliens: because there are no aliens to find
- If you want to talk about the ultimate broadband communications over distances, you would have to cite radio telescopes that are tuned in to listen to signals from alien civilizations. Last week at someplace called Hat Creek, Calif., Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen attended the unveiling and activation...
- Tags: Earth, Paul Allen, Radio, Alien, Radio Dishe, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, Russell Shaw
- Blog posts 2007-10-15
- AMD nurtures open-source graphics
- AMD nurtures open-source graphicsAn interesting storyAs I began reading I was wondering how they would get around all the proprietary, licensed, copyrighted, and patented IP. About halfway down I seen they were simply going to with hold much of the information. I suppose the "half full" figure of...
- Tags: Nothing, open source, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., IP, hardware
- Discussion threads 2007-09-06
- SETI@Home User Statistics (widget)
- Displays your SETI-BOINC account total or average work units. Will indicate if the new average is higher or lower than the previous one. This version is the first release on CNET Download.com.
- Tags: Statistics
- Software downloads 2007-07-30
- Digipede Wins Microsoft ISV of the Year
- John Powers, CEO of Digipede, and I had a lovely conversation the other day. Before we could really examine the company's virtualization technology and approach to the market, John mentioned that his company was named Microsoft ISV/Software Solutions Partner of the Year in 2007. When one considers how many ISV...
- Tags: virtual processing software, high performance computing
- Blog posts 2007-07-17
- University of California at Berkeley CIO - Transcript
- Dan Farber: Shelton, Thanks for joining me.Shelton Waggener: Thanks for having me today.Dan Farber: Now you've spent your career outside of academia. You were at Lucent, Alcatel, and Sybase and in 2003 you went to the University of California, Berkeley. What made you decide to go into...
- Tags: Uncategorized
- Blog posts 2007-06-19
- University of California at Berkeley CIO - Transcript
- Dan Farber: Shelton, Thanks for joining me. Shelton Waggener: Thanks for having me today. Dan Farber: Now you've spent your career outside of academia. You were at Lucent, Alcatel, and Sybase and in 2003 you went to the University of California, Berkeley....
- Tags: University Of California At Berkeley, Network, Student, Computer Science, Institution, Technology, Computer, Campus, Berkeley, Productivity, Networking, Wireless, Andrew Mager
- Blog posts 2007-06-19
- Mozilla patches 'critical' Firefox memory corruption crashes
- Mozilla patches 'critical' Firefox memory corruption crashesHuh?I haven't had any browser crashes in ages. WTF? ]:)Thanks for the heads up, RyanI just downloaded the new version from the Mozilla site, since the Ubuntu-packaged Firefox doesn't check for browser updatesbut within a few days Ubuntu should provide a package update.I'm glad...
- Tags: Web browsers, patch management, Mozilla Firefox, Mozilla Corp.
- Discussion threads 2007-05-30
- Photos: Searching for Earth-size planets
- At an open meeting at the SETI Institute, scientists discuss NASA's plans to use the new Kepler spacecraft to search for Earth-size planets orbiting stars.
- Tags: photograph, Earth-size, spacecraft, NASA, scientist
- Image galleries 2007-04-13
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